Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-01-08
PERSONAL AND lMPERSONAL

There are ninety-six thousand
women on the Government pension
rolls Washington star.
Mary Harper, a Cleveland servant
girl, has inherited two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars from relativein
Philadelphia. Clereland Leacler.
Moses Won Dam, of Jersey City,
who was rejected by Mary Brunn, made
his will, bequcathing her twenty thou
sand dollars. and then committed
suicidc.-N Y MaH
-Gcorge X. Remington, leading
citizen of Fall River. Mass, who re-
Gently died, carried life-insurance poll.
cies amounting to over one hundred
thousand dollars Boston Herdld.
Fred Douglass told the London
Daily Nevs not long ago that SO far
from the negroes dying out they are
increasing. Al the tine of thc aboli
ton OF slavery there were 100000 Of
them, and he calculates that there are
now 100000.
General Roger A. Pryor lately real
lied one hundred thousand dollars in a
speculation in railroad securities. He
| came to New York soon after the war
without dollar in his pocket, and now
has legal practice Of twenty thousand
dollars a year.-N \. Herald
"A very interesting ceremony took
place in the Parish Church of Cedars,
near Montreal, the other morning,
when Il 'gidoHer Charles Roy, was
married to Mrs kiloh, a widow, and
the son Of Mr.. RoS -'9Kried at the same
time e dar~htei.bEAlrs. Pilon.
Engineer Henry Moore, of the
Chi4go, 'lwmik kec & st. Paul Rail
way Company, h8 Received $50, 900 for
a tive-acre tract in Minneapolis for
which he had paid,$ 800 about nine
years ago. He is about to retire from
the road and settle in Minneapolis
Caicago TrijuRe
Willie Hines the seventeen-year-
old son Of a wcl-to-do farmer at West
Poins, Ga, cloped with and married
| Miss Newsome, ten years his senior.
In order to keep his father from follow
ing him the young man smashed the
family carriage and threw the saddle
intos he welL-.St Louis Post.
The will of the late Charles Franci,
Adams, of Boston makes one public
bequest of ten thousand dollars to the
Adams Academic quincy, of which the
grandfather Of tlre deceased was the
founder. The rest of the estate i.
equally divided among members of the
I ldi>,ly J0uInal.
The New York Graphic says Allen
, Thorndyke Rice Wore girls clothes un-
' til he was sixteen years old. His
mother, who had separated from her
) husband, thu, dressed him for fear OF
his abduction bv is father At the are
of sixteen he rebelled against the
tyranny Of pettioats and took to veal.
ing bifurcatcd garments.
The sons of Mrs. John Benner, o
/ | st. Louis, few weeks ago spoke to ne
Y about the birthday dinner they mean
f to give her on her nincty-firet birthday
: Although in good health, the old lad,
said: NO. boys. Instead of a dinner
it will be a funeral" No attention wa,
paid to this but soon after Mrs. Bennel
began TO fail, and Just as she had pre-
dicted, on her nnety,frst birthday hci
. sons assembled at her funeral.-N
. \. SUn.
; '-Thaddeu- Towler. who died re
Gently in seymour, Conn, was n mos
! prolific inventor. He invented ma
) chine for stic pg pins in paper. for
manufacturing iron pins, for sorins
pins for making pins, head and all, a
a single stroke; for making needles. tol
p pointing wire, for making horseshoe
, nails and for stamping metal He a.,
inNutci a rcaping and binding ma
chine and the A>cViug-hrd" used OF
, ladies work tables. H. had little bu,i
mes, ability and died poor,-Haryorc
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